BETHESDA, Md. - USEC Inc. announces the promotion of Sandra L. Fout to Enrichment Plant Manager at the Portsmouth plant. She reports to Patrick D. Musser, General Manager. As Enrichment Plant Manager, she will oversee Production Support, Operations, Work Control, Maintenance and Customer Service.

Fout has served as Operations manager at the plant since April 1998. She came to the Portsmouth plant in June 1979 as a metallurgist. In 1987, she transferred to the Project Management group in the Engineering division where she was responsible for the management of multi-million dollar engineering projects for the Portsmouth plant. In 1991, she was named to manage the Project Management group. From 1992-1994, she held various positions of management within the Engineering division: department head, Chemical Engineering; department superintendent, Design Engineering; and deputy division manager, Technical Operations. In 1994, she was promoted to division manager, Environmental & Waste Management. She was named division manager, Technical Services, in February 1995, and she became organization manager, Production Support, in December 1995.

Fout has a bachelor of science degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an adjunct faculty member at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, where she teaches in the Engineering Technologies program.

USEC Inc., a global energy company, is the world’s leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

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